About 3 million years ago Equestria and the surrounding islands were located in the North Pacific Ocean on Earth. Now Equestria at the time had the highest consternation of magic which cause many of the species living there to develop sentience but humans were not among them when Discord put Equestria and the surrounding islands in a pocket dimension to "play with his toys". The barrier of this dimension caused anyone or anything inside to forget the outside world. Discord did this because his magical nature could not effect the outside world completely and he didn't want his toys hiding from him.
Now fast forward 3 million years, the world is a very different place as humans have spread across the planet bringing with them very faint traces of magic. This magic has allowed humans to catch glimpses of Equestria through dreams and has caused the barrier to weaken to the point of collapse as the Earth wants to reconnect with its missing piece. Discord having sense the change in the barrier but having forgotten about it sees this as opportunity to have little fun, sits back to watch the chaos unfold. How would Humanity react? Is Equestria ready for such a change? And will there ever be peace after this?
Read to find out more.

Note: This story takes place after season 6 and Equestria Girls is cannon.
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I would like to say that the idea for this story is based off of Widening the Lens.

In the battle training, Bakugou’s hatred for Izuku grew stronger and stronger until he snapped. Luckily for Izuku, his soul carries on.

Written By DannyPhantom79 and BioQuillFiction

After Izuku was attacked by the sludge villain, All Might was able to apprehend him without incident. Izuku never gets One For All, and the last words he heard from All Might were "you cannot be a Hero".

Izuku finds himself torn on how to move forward, but fate had decided to intervene. After an impactful meeting with a certain Alicorn princess, Izuku finds another way forward. He just wished that path wasn't so extreme.

It's a spaceship. An enormous spaceship, floating in orbit around the Earth. That's all traffic control knows about it.
It's got beefy sensors, strong computers, and stern control of a plasma cannon, utilized in its defense against a known criminal. That's all Law Enforcement knows about it.
It's newly commissioned and currently unmanned. There's a clear lack of engineering people on her crew lists. That's all her new Captain knows about it, while she's on her way to be the first human being to step aboard.

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An alternate timeline of The First Equestrian Starliner in which Athena didn't null out.
Tags may be updated as the story progresses.

Princess Twilight Sparkle, in a new, peaceful era for Equestria, has gotten bored of just reading. No- she wants to discover for herself. Only, Equestria has run out of discoverable facts.

Then Princess Luna reveals an astounding fact to the younger princess. A few observations and a little engineering later, and she's ready to blast off for the stars.

Only, before she even breaks out her contraption, a computer glitch leaves something else to investigate- something far closer than the stars, yet something that might reveal the secret of the stars to her.

When a starship is launched, there are a huge number of hoops for it to jump through to be cleared for launch- to be allowed to come even close to seeing the light of day.

Then one ship that came up short of all those hoops was granted an exception because of how unique it was- there likely wasn't any set of hoops it could hop through, simply because it wouldn't fit. It was too large.

Unfortunately, while it launched successfully, its builder- and owner- was already dead.

So, with nobody left with a claim to it, it fell into the ownership of the Navy- under whose authority it launched. And what is the Navy going to do with a starliner of this size?

Personnel movements, of course! If anyone wants a ride to fringe worlds at the warfront, or back from them, and doesn't mind becoming a cute magical pony for the rest of their lives, she can get them home and back three times over in the same time that even the fastest other ship would require just to get them home the first time.

Updates on Thursdays, when ready. Why didn't I have this note in here before...?

He'd thought it would be a long journey. New York to California and back on a freight train usually is.
Only, somewhere along the way, his train somehow finds its way onto Equestrian tracks. With no clue exactly what happened and a sneaking suspicion he's never going to reach California, he finds he's got a detour to make first. Especially once that strange steam train got involved.

Tags may be updated as the story progresses.

The stars were made to be explored, were they not?

That's what Princess Short Flight believed, at any rate. You never know what you'll find out there- and who knows, maybe the legends were right.

Maybe there really is a world called Equestria out there, just waiting to be discovered, and maybe it really does have magic on it.

And maybe, juuuust maybe, her civilization wasn't the only survivor of the ancient apocalypse.

A rewrite of the once-maybe-popular Just Like Magic of Old, this story will be taking over the Monday publication slot... when I have chapters. No guarantees, for a few weeks at least.

And as always, tags may be updated as the story progresses.

Oh, and before I forget: Thanks to my editors, the usual Gerandakis and this time also one of my siblings.

On a world where magic exists only in the distant past, a young unicorn Princess is utterly convinced she won't live to see the day when it is rediscovered. Thus, she doesn't know what to think when, after a particularly nasty run-in with orbiting procedures, it changes her life forever.

Updates Mondays, if ready. Or, on Patreon, when ready.

And last but not least, many thanks to Shooting Star for graciously permitting me to use his OC, and to Gerandakis for the editing assist!

Rewrite/translation to past tense started 6/21/2020 and subsequently stagnated. There's a few changes to the wording, so it flows better, but all the same events are taking place in all the same places, and all the same words are being said. I'd recommend a re-read for the details being added, but it's not necessary.

In the year 2022, Neighsay took a new job as an interplanetary missions director after retiring from the EEA. Starting in 2037, two explorations on a deserted planet called Soria have gone successfully, in an attempt to determine how it became uninhabited three years prior. The year is now 2042. Twelve days into their mission, a dust-storm has forced Twilight Sparkle, Flurry Heart, Rainbow Dash, Ocellus, Cadence, and Thorax, the crew of Astro III to abort their mission early. They must launch before the ascension rocket tips over, in order return to their orbiting spacecraft, the Cosmos. During the storm, Flurry is struck by a communication dish that breaks off of the habitation facility, and thrown out of sight. Without time to look for her, and with the rocket on the brink of falling down, the crew presumes her as dead and escapes just in time. Now, Flurry must find out how to contact them and get rescued.